Most Russian nouns usually have specific endings in plural, and each case has its particular endings for plural forms. We already know the nominative case, and we will examine formation of plural for nouns in the nominative case.

In the majority of instances, Russian nouns will have the following changes in nominative plural:

Nouns ending in a consonant add endings ы or и

Nouns ending in a/я change а/я to ы/и

Nouns ending in soft sign ь change ь to и

However, there are a lot of other changes in nominative plural. For example:

доктор - доктора
служащий - служащие

Some nouns do not change their form in plural:

киви both for singular and plural

b) Translate into Russian and check yourself.

Phrases to translate

1. Mary and Betty are doctors.

Check yourself

2. Steve and David are programmers.

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3. Kelly and Jeff are teachers.

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4. Peter and Jack are managers.

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5. Donna and Sandra are engineers.

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6. John and Paul are workers.

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IV. Personal pronouns

a) Learn the following Russian pronouns:

Transcription

мы

[mi]

we

вы

[vi]

you

они

[ani]

they

b) Listen to the phrases in Russian and choose the right translation

Listen to the phrases. Drag the English phrases from the list below
and drop them into the corresponding fields.

Phrase 1

Phrase 2

Phrase 3

Phrase 4

Phrase 5

Phrase 6

5Are you from Canada?

1They are from Russia.

6They are doctors.

2We are teachers.

3Are you programmers?

4They are French.

с) Give a positive answer following the model and check yourself:

Model

Марк и Крис - студенты? (they) [mark i kris stoodyenti?]

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Да, они студенты.[da, ani stoodyenti]

Are Mark and Chris students? - Yes, they are students.

Questions

Вы программисты? (we) - ...

[vi pragramisti? ]

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Вера и Ольга из Роcсии? (they) - ...

[vyera i olga iz rasii ]

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Они из США? (they) - ...

[ani is se she a ]

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Вы из Канады? (we) - ...

[vi is kanadi? ]

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Иван и Максим - доктора? (they) - ...

[ivan i maksim daktara? ]

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Они студенты? (they) - ...

[ani stoodyenti? ]

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V. Let me introduce myself

Listen to the phrases in Russian and choose the right translation

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and drop them into the corresponding fields.